Best-pone sur Warseer a écrit:Up for release in September is the new Codex: Space Marines.

- There will be 7 Ltd Ed varients. 6 of these will be covers for First Founding chapters, whilst the 7th will have Black Templars on the cover.

- New weapon family: Grav weapons. I believe these wound against the armour save (so terminators would be wounded as if they had a toughness of 2).

- First Founding chapters will be getting a substantial section each to themselves, so hopefully this can be looked as as Codex: Space Marines instead of Codex: Ultramarines. This will also show in a rule called Chapter Tactics, for which the effects depend on the chapter being played.

- There is a new armour type that at first glance looks to be somewhere between a terminator and a dreadnought - looking more closely, it appears to go over the marine's power armour however.- This new armour can be armed in 2 ways, depending on the user. The devastator version has either a bolter array or missile launchers mounted on the chest armour, whilst the gauntlets can be armed with heavy bolters, lascannons or grav cannons. The assault version has a bolter array or frag launchers mounted on the chest armour, with assault drills mounted on the gauntlets.

- There are 2 new AA tanks. One tank veterans will already be familiar with as the Hunter, armed an AA missile launcher. The other tank mounts 2 tri-barreled turrets instead.

- There is a new tactical squad. Lots of options as you'd expect, but of particular interest will probably be the grav pistol and grav rifle.

This post is going to be a little of a tease but there is information to be had. I was sent pics of the new marine models this weekend and they're amazing. I promised that I will not post them and that is where the tease part comes in. I will describe the models that I have seen and can confirm some of the rumors out there.

Centurions:The guys are a heavy support choice. They're a marine cased in heavy armor with powerfist with lascannons under slung on one pic and heavy bolters on the other. Think of a heavier terminator armor that a marine straps into. I think this is where Chaos Oblits came from. They look to be on 40mm and I'm really starting to dig these models.

Plastic Chaplain:Like other plastic HQ's that have come out. He is armed with a Crozius and bolt pistol. He has ornate armor and he is in a dynamic pose.

Plastic Librarian:Same as above regarding previous HQ releases. He is helmetless and he's armed with a staff. He also has a wicked cherub flying off his pack pack. I really like this model.

The Hunter:I believe this will be anti-air rhino. Its a cross between Vindicator Heavy Armor and a whirlwind style weapon mounted on the back. It comes with two cannons that have three barrels.

Vanguard Plastic: I saw two separate pics one armed with TH/SS and one with a pair of Lighting claws, finally. Same Marine bodies just with some new iconography to freshen up the models.

From what I have seen so far the Marine release is going to be huge for GW. Sorry about no pics but I promised.

Centurions:UPDATE: Comes with a grav weapon option. I've seen a picture of the back and it is a suit that a power armor marine wears.

Chaplain:UPDATE: Chaplain comes with helmetless option that has a bionic eye option.

Hunter:UPDATE There’s another cannon option that looks similar to the epic version. It’s a heavy cannon option, possibly shoots missiles.

Vanguard:UPDATE: They have options for beaky, relic blades, and a bareheaded marine w/ mohawk! The Vanguard Vets are more action oriented, think of the Blood Angels Death Company sprue.

NEW:

Sternguard plastics:These models look pissed off, GW really captured the old grizzled look. Sternguard have a marine with bald head w/ beard and another mohawk head! The bolters also have the drum magazines. I have seen the following combi-weapons flamer, melta, and plasma. GW did an amazing job on this kit, I'm super pumped for this kit.

Tactical Marines:The Armor has been updated will small studs, purity seals, and some new leg poses. These will mix really well with the current tactical squad. Missile launch backpack in the new tactical squad matches the devastator one with robo arm. There is a new arm set that has a marine loading a magazine into his bolter.

All Marine models have been painting in the following chapters: Crimson Fist, Iron Hands, and Ultrmarines.

I managed to get a deeper look into the upcoming White Dwarf which obviously showcases the new SM stuff. I promised not to take any pictures and since my possible future early insight into WD depends on it – I won’tTake it as you wish, but this isn’t salt – this is what exactly is coming

BOOKS:

- Codex: Space Marines with a very nice picture of badass looking Space Marine (probably best C:SM cover so far)- confirmed the 7 limited versions- none showed in WD, all mentioned obviously as mail-order only- small Apocalypse Warzone will also be released (unsure if it’s digital only or not) – Damnos (see the BL book “Fall of Damnos” – basicly Necrons vs. Ultramarines)

PLASTIC KITS:

Space Marine Captain & Space Marine Librarian (2 separate clamp-packs)- not to confuse with multi-part customizable Space Marines Commander set which should stay around- those are like Cadre Fireblade, Aspiring Champion etc… 1 pose, plastic- Captain has Cato Sicarius-like helmet and lots of bling, has a very similar pose to Captain from AOBR, Power Sword and Combi-Grav- Librarian has beard (a lot of SM beards + bald heads in this release) and a skull-cap thingy wihich makes him look a bit like… Merlin- Librarian also has a power staff (or whatever you call that) held horizontally, and one ugly herub-like servitor cupid (creepy stuff)

Reclusiam Command Squad- not sure if this replaces SM Command Squad kit- contains the mentioned SM Command Squad (don’t see any changes here), a plastic Chaplain and… Razorback – all for 55£- this definetly isn’t the prettiest Chaplain model out there but it has some nice bitz, nice big skully Crozius and 2 heads – one bald with Kano-like face implant and the other is a skull helmet (looks a bit iffy)- he also has purity seals with massive ribbons/parchments blown by the wind

Sternguard Veterans- A W E S O M E!- all the best elements from their old metal versions, long loincloths, tons of bling, ornaments on helmets and armor, seems to have lot of bitz- finally we get plastic versions of combi-weapons, all seem to be here including the new Combi-Grav- nice new plastic Heavy Flamer and Heavy Bolter (version with drum-mag)- badass heads and poses (yap, another bald head with beard)- sergeant has a “roman-mohawk” on his helmet (not the Sicarius one, other way around)- 5 models in box

(NEW) Tactical Squad- 10 models, price increased slightly (we could have seen that coming, couldn’t we?)- not many changes here, will nicely mix with bits from old kit- major addition is more head variants and new Grav-Gun and Grav-Pistol- some new ornaments on backpacks and shoulder pads (not all, just few bits to make some difference among marines)- interesting bits: Auspex is back! (but DA heralded that already), set of bolter/arms during reload (looks cool), badass Combi-Flamer, nice new (smaller) Power Fist- I would suggest buying a box of Tactical Squad that’s currently in sale before next month (it’ll surely be gone by then) to have a wider array of bits (unless you already have tons of them)

Now let’s clear some rumors regarding new vehicles:- NO new rhino kit, still the same, old, badly cast chassis with massive holes after you glue it (- NO new versions of Razorback / Predator / Whirlwind – all stays the same apparently- NO sign of Rhino-variants (but perhaps they just differ rule-wise)- NO “Big Walker” – forget about Dreadknight / Riptide / Wraithknight counterpart for SM (- NO new Skimmers / Flyers (especially no sign of one that was mentioned in rumours recently)- NO new Bikes, Landraiders or Dreadnaughts- basically, unless I mention it as a kit above or below – it’s not getting any update / remake / new model

Stalker / Hunter- the rumored dual-kit AA tank- lots of new parts, side armor is massive and has some kind of pistons that seem to be pinning it to the ground- front plate is also different from other vehicles on Rhino-chassis: Stalker / Hunter has one that looks a bit Heresy-era with a “bumper” that looks similarly to the one Landspeeder has (that belt-of-cubes bumper thing)

- Stalker is the one with dual 3-barrel autocannon-like guns, it also has a nice radar dish, really badass look- it’s described as rapid-firing AA (guess it’s SM version of IG Hydra)- now here’s big thing: it’s not twin-link! those are TWO SEPARATE guns that are mentioned to be able to shoot at TWO SEPARATE targets

- Hunter is the one that looks like that vintage SM Hunter tank – one massive AA turret barrel- shoots “Skyspear Rockets” but no details on special rules here

Centurion Devastator Squad / Centurion Assault Squad- the “Big Suits” everyone is talking about, apparently they are this release’s big spotlight- Devastators are Heavy Support (duh!) and Assaults are… Fast Attack (what did you expect?)- come in plastic kits, 3 models per box- they really look like if the exoskelton is worn ON the Power Armour – their heads look super tiny- they remind me more of power loader that Ripley piloted in Aliens movie than “child of contemptor and dread” as someone described- they all seem to have same weapon in each hand and something mounted on the chest- the Devastator options displayed contained Lascannons and Heavy Bolters- the Assault options were Breaching Drills (like that arm FW’s Siege Dread has) with Stormbolters(?) attached, no other arm option shown- the “chest weapon” apparently gave us choice of : frag lanuchers, mini-hurricane bolter (?!) and some rockets (chest mounted Typhoon ML?)- it will take some time getting used to those models on battlefield but with their bulky simplicity they will surely be canon part of fluff in few years

That’s all I remember. Hope it will give you some idea / clear some things up